Health Care

Mevion Medical Systems of Littleton, which makes proton therapy systems for use in radiation therapy for cancer...

A new federal rule extending greater workplace pay protections to home health and personal care workers is forcing homecare agencies to raise rates, re-think their business models, and could lead to consolidation across the industry, experts say.

A little more than a week into the open enrollment period, Massachusetts Health Connector Authority officials said the process of enrolling new customers in health plans has gone smoothly, unlike in years past.

The Southborough-based developer Brendon Properties will present to Framingham officials plans to build an assisted living facility...

Charles River Laboratories will re-open a Shrewsbury lab that has been shuttered since 2010 with a mixture...

The University of Massachusetts Medical School has declined to comment on a report that a Veterans Administration (VA) health care facility proposed for construction on campus may not come to fruition.

AFC Doctors Express, the urgent care services company that is partnering with the Central Massachusetts Independent Physicians Association (CMIPA) to provide urgent care to its patients, celebrated the opening of its first Worcester location on Stafford Street Wednesday evening.

Standing in front of a crowd of cheerful onlookers on Oct. 26 at the announcements of a $36-million renovation to two downtown Worcester office towers and of 500 UMass Memorial Health Care workers relocating downtown, Lt. Gov. Karen Polito was all too happy to tout all that had been done to improve the city.

The story of the Guild of St. Agnes, a full-service early education and care facility, started back in 1913 with the agency serving just 19 children in a day nursery.

When Chris Lloyd started working at Auburn beverage distribution company Atlas Distributing Inc., he was a young, single guy who didn't much care about the company's benefits. More than a decade later, he said, they're a big reason he wouldn't think of working anywhere else.